The Post-search light. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1915-current, July 21, 1921, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextT>Ok V/ ordinary ST-SEARCH LICrHT 01,1 ME 7, NUMBER 16. BA1NBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1921. $1.50 PER ANNUM ANARK INN AND THE GULF BREEZES ttb \cting many guests FO k week-end visits on THE GULF. the Lanark Inn, full ATTEND FREIGHT RATEREVISION COMMITTEE FROM BAINBRIDGE REPRESENTED AT HEARING IN ATLANTA. LatiarK and ea breezes and good things to eat, entertaining a popular list of uests, among them recently hade sen:. „ „ . Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Perry, Bam- ijge; Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Brinson, ainbridge; Mr. J. P. Brown, Bain- Uige; Mr. Lewis Cliett, Bainbridge; . Edgar Mims, Atlanta; Miss Chlo- Scott, Washington, D. C.; M. C. Neil and wife, Tallahassee, Fla.; M. Corry, Quincy, Fla.; Arthur orry and wife, Quincy, Fla.; Miss Marks, Apalachicola, Fla.; A. S. onroe and daughter, Quincy, Fla.; Edith Taylor, Atlanta; Miss An- e Naftel, Montgomery, Ala.; W. M. insott, and wife, Hinson, Fla.; C. F. abccck; W. B. Myers, Tallahas- Fla.; Roy Callahan, Tallahassee, (ieorge Martin, Tallahassee, Nick Johnson, Tallahassee, I.. A. Yates, Tallahassee, Fla.; irpe Dawson, Tallahassee, Fla.; Bil- Burroughs, Tallahassee, Fla.; Eu- ce Bayless, Tallahassee, Fla.; Lu- lle Reece, Tallahassee, Fla.; Lucy iller, Tallahassee, Fla.; Newell alker, Tallahassee, Fla.; Mr. and Mike Johnson, Tallahassee, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lyons, Talla ssee, Fla.; Mrs. W. P. Davis, Talla- jssee, Fla.; Miss Laura Smith, Talla ssee, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sen- Bainbridge; G. H. Wynne and ife, Bainbridge; P. H. Battle, Bain- idge; R. Darsey, Cuthbert, Ga.; J. Carson, Cuthbert, Ga.; T. E. An- ws, Tallahassee, Fla.; Dr. W. E. vis, Tallahassee, Fla.; George E, swis, Tallahassee, Fla.; Miss Agnes on, Tallahassee, Fla.; Miss M. trrison, Tallahassee, Fla.; Miss Inc: tr, Tallahassee, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. !.. Fleetwood, Tallahassee, Fla.; ss Jo West, Tallahassee, Fla.; Miss een Vivian, Tallahassee, Ela.; Miss na McCubbins, Tallahassee, Fla.; F. Jones, Tallahassee, Fla.; Pat urphy, Tallahassee, Fla.; Bradley ss, Tallahassee, Fla.; Clarence Har- . Tallahassee, Fla.; D. D. Arden, llahassee, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. A. Matson, Tallahassee, Fla.; Miss Drtense Healy, Tallahassee, FIs.; lard Bussey, Cuthbert, Ga.; I. J. insford. Cuhtbert, Ga.; Miss Annie dl. Albany, Ga.; Miss Minnie Hall, bany, Ga.; C. D. Roberts and fe, Macon, Ga.; Kibler Crump and Representing Bainbridge at the hearing on the proposed freight rate revision in Atlanta last week were: Messrs. J. W. Callahan, G. B. Toole, C. R. Graham and A. C. Soule, Jr., secretar yof the Board of Trade. This committee presented to the Fourth Section Committee informally and formally the complaints of the Bainbridge shippers on the proposed freight rate revision, showing to them the discriminations that would exist against Bainbridge. The board acknowledged the exis tence of these discriminations and lent a sympatheti cear, expressing a will ingness to rectify this if it should be done without nullifying the principle embodied in the entire rate structure which they have been building for five years in compliance with Inter state Commerce Commission require ments. The board suggested possi bilities of commodity rates to take care of certain commodities. Large Eastern and Central Western cities were represented as well as many Southern cities, with probably the largest delegation hailing from Florida. Points like Pensacola, Jacksonville and Savannah are badly disturbed over the proposed revision and while some regard the fight in vain, yet thy all hold that their wa ter facilities will save them. Bain bridge is fortunate in this connection, being able to use the Callahan line in connection with Gulf steamers, to secure their freight on a more equit able basis. The Fourth Section committee will next appear before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washnigton to justify the proposed rates anit if the commission approves them, they will then be put in tariff form. It is 'not believed that they will become ef- | fective before winter, and if they do .f go into effect without expected con siderations being shown Bainbridge, once more the local folk will be able to appreciate their location as the river and its steamer service will come to their rescue. Snator Watson Says He’s No Whisky Soak Washington ,July 19.—Declaring Senator Nelson, Republican, Minne- „„„ sota, had inferred every one opposed ife, Macon, Ga.; Mrs. Baldwin, Al- to the measure was lined up with the Ga.; Miss Clyde Jenkins, Edi- n. Ga.; Miss Margaret Jenkins, Edi- n, Ga.; Miss Eunice Massee, Edison, .; W. B. Jackson, Albany, Ga.; J. Warren, wife and children, Ameri- , Ga.; Erie M. Donalson and fam- Bainbridge; Mrs. D. L. Shaekle- rd and family, Bainbridge; Mr. E. Hines, Bainbridge; Mr. II. G. and family, Montgomery, Ala.; r. I.. Y. Dean and family, Eufaula, a.: Arthur Corry, Quincy, Fla.; Dr. G. Boring, Quincy, Fla.; J. T. Mit- ell and family, Thomasville, Ga.; F. Balkcum and son, Blakely, Ga.; • E. Herndon, Bristol, Tenn. Mrs. Osborn Daniel, of Pelham, ar- ved Tuesday'morning for a visit to r parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bel- er. breweries, Senator Wat.don, Demo crat, Georgia, during a short debate in the Senate today on the Willis- Campbell beer bill shouted: “I want it understood I’m not a whisky soak.” “If you bring ack the beer and light wines," Senator Nelson had de clared, “you’ll bring back the saloon and the fight for prohibition will have been fought in vain. The Georgia Senator said he had joined the fight against the saloon when at the age of fourteen he was “baptized in Sweetwater creek” and joined the church. He flayed the bill as an infringement on personal lib erties. Miss Rena Louise Bower, of Talla hassee, Fla., is the guest of Miss Georgia Fleming. ax Digest, 1921 Decatur Co. The Tax Receiver has completed his :t of tax returns for the year showing a total property valua- n ■ or taxing purposes amounting to $7,845,534. The total returns by districts, showing white and colored separate, is as follows: [STRICT WHITE COLORED TOTAL ttapuleus $ 391,711.00 $ 49,014.00 $ 440,725.00 -Ichers 199,280.00 24,313.00 223,593.00 ills 32,653.00 338,935.00 r-nson 660,763.00 40,642.00 701,405.00 :max 390,970.00 50,926.00 441,896.00 iceville 174,304.00 25,361.00 199,665.00 owlstowr, 131,380.00 34,473.00 165,863.00 eadricks 183,081.00 16,431.00 199,512.00 *rkers 172,202.00 29,122.00 201,324.00 lr e Hill 566,778.00 105,379.00 672,157.00 “covery 137,963.00 39,279.00 177,242.00 Abridge . 3,691.926.00 391,301.00 4,083,227.00 ihe twelve districts above returned r taxation last year property val- ,|| i 'A $8,297,518.00, which makes falling off this year in tax values 1,984.00. Municipal League Bills De feated By House Committee (EDITORIAL) On last Tuesday afternoon the House committee of the General Assembly on Constitutional Amendments defeated the so-called Municipal League bills by an overwhelming vote of 30 to 1 on the State bill and 24 to 7 on the Municipal bills. Three men, John J. Eagan, Marion Jackson and James L. Key, of Atlanta, have sought by every subterfuge on earth to hoist on the people a false issue and bring about a discus sion of a dream that only the three wildest men in the State ever thought of. The bills provide that most any set of swash bucklers can take the State’s credit and play with it like a gambler with a set of dice and the House committee very righteously and justly defeated them. Georgia will never pay its debt of gratitude to this committee. This repudiation of the Hearst doctrine in Georgia could only be expected. The Hearst doctrine if practiced forty years ago, would have made a great change in things. William Randolph himself would be plowing a blind bull or riding a flea bitten mule across the Western praries instead of being engaged in trying to lead the people of Georgia away from common sense. Hearst’s father made his money in railroads and mining and now his son after getting gobs of it that he never worked for, wants the “dear peepul” to own all the railroads and mines and operate them at a big loss, said loss to be made up by the tax payers. It is hard to conceive why old man Hearst did not lam some of his common sense into the head of this bird that he left his kale to. If William’s ideas had been in vogue at the time the old man was cleaning up, William would have a front seat on a grocery wagon somewhere, taking orders for onions and eggs. Georgia wants none of that propaganda at all. Those bills were inspired by Marion Jackson and Eagan and given a semi religious air and styled by them asot were God’s bills for the people. We would hate like the mischief to think that the God we worship had any acquaintance whatsoever with this bunch that arc trying to rifle the State like old Bulloch and his sweet- scented geraniums did in 1870. Jackson’s god gives him lots of trouble and worries, Eagan almost as bad. He has just given John Eagan a job as president of the Nigger Association with a nigger preacher for a president pro tern We have 500 niggers in Decatur county that ean give them more sound ad vice and learn them more about what God wants than that pair will ever know. It has been the most silly and ridiculous campaign that ever was in the State. It became a joke about the way Marion and John would sanctimoniously deplore that the waters in the State were wasting and flowing down to the sea and not turning a churn, but our idea is that a durn river hasn’t got any better sense than to flow right on where it has started, churn or no churn. There has been no need or demand for any such fool propaganda other than the intense desire of these three men to boss some of the corporations in the State and to boss several small corporations they would form the biggest apd most dangerous corporation to rob tax payers that the State ever saw. At any rate, the very sensible committee of the Consti tutional Amendments of the House did not Worry about John and Marion’s God, the churn or the way a river runs, Nigger Association or any other ism. They are tired of free booters trying to run in the religious side to put over a graft. ONEWHITEMAN HURT IN BATTLE FIGHT OCCURS ON LOUISIANA PLANTATION NEAR RAYVILLE. Mfinroe, La., July 1*7.—Four negroes were killed and; M|onroe Ferguson, business man, was seriously wounded in a forty minute battle near Ray- ville, La., resulting from an attempt of deputy sheriffs to arrest two ne gro women charged with beating a number fit small white boys they found in swimming. The scene of the clash was the plan tation of William Gaines, three miles north of Rayville. A desperate battle tool: place there late yesterday, hun dreds of shots being fired. The dead arc: Cleo Collins, Charles Kelly, Scott Bellfield and William Gibbs. Friday a group of white lads found a swimming hole and went to it. The negro women are said to have re proached them for their lack of cloth ing, the boys retorted and trouble fol lowed. Several of the boys are said the band work and subscribe your j Fo have exhibited to their parents ALEX BERRY DROWNS IN GASOLINE TANK MET HORRIBLE DEATH AT THE TEXAS OIL CO. MONDAY AFTERNOON. HARDWICK AGAIN URGESECONOMY HIS MESSAGE IS READ TO LEG ISLATIVE BRANCHES TODAY. Bainbridge was stunned Monday night by the news of the tragic death of young Lbgan Alexander Berry, which occured at 6 o'clock, by his drowning in one of the Texas Oil Company’s lnrge gasoline tanks. In tnking the afternoon measurement, the young boy dropped his pencil and swung down into the tank to reach for it. Becoming asphyxiated by the gas fumes. Logan called to his com panion, John Neely, to hold him, but \h e perfect specimen of manhood that he was, was too much weight for the little friend. When Logan, in a few seconds had succumbed, help came and with a piece of wire the body was caught by the arms and drawn to the top of the tank. There was not a great depth of gasoline in the tank. The Texas Oil Station is located on *the A. C. L. ailroad, quite a little dis tance from the business portion of 'Bainbridge nnd at the twilight hour that part of town is very quiet and it was some seconds before John Atlanta, July 19.—The bill by Rep resentative Mundy of Poulk, provid ing for a Constitutional amendment to make the sessions of the General As sembly biennial instead of annual got an enormous impetus today and has a strength in at least the lower branch of the Assembly that indicates very strong chance it will be passed. Governor Hardwick has gotten squarely behind the proposition and today sent to both branches a special message urging its passage as an economy measure. His message fol lows : “To the General Assembly: “The Constitution of 1877 requires that the General Assembly shall meet annually. I urge you to consider an amendment to the Oomftitution to provide for biennial instead of an nual sessions of the General Assem bly. , “The reasons which prompt me to make this suggestion are as follows: “First. I do so in the interest of 'Neely could make his cry for help be I economy. If we should have bien- heard. Logan Berry’s death touched | nial instead of annual sessions of the heart of his home town because! the General Assembly the expense he was a little Christian gentleman; j would be cut in two and a saving to obedient to authority and courteous. the State of approximately $56,000 to every one. A regular Sunday per annum would be made. In times School attendant; a popular school like these it behooves us to effect toy and a respected Boy Scout. He 1 every possible economy in the ex- looked polite; he seemed nt attention penditure of the money of the peo- nnd with his dnpper appenrnnee, one pl e , could not fail to observe him nnd to j “Second. Biennial sessions of the enjoy hi min passing. i General Assembly would be an im- The funeral service was held Tues- provement over our present system ‘day afternoon at 3:30 in the Metho- for another and if possible even dist church by his pastor, the Rev- stronger reason: we have too many crend Mr. Langston and his friend, 1 unnecessary changes in tljp law and the Reverend Mr. Ward of the Presby- ( amendments to the laws In other terian church. In a midst of ex- words, too much legislation. If we quisite flowers, the body lay in front had biennial session's instead of un- of the cancel surrounded by his fam- nual sessions of the General Assem bly and a large host of friends and bly the result would be that we would acquaintances and when the service have fewer changes In our laws and of music; reading by Mr. Ward and wou ]d avoid the disturbances to busi- n simple, appealing talk by Mr, Lang-1 ness incident to anticipated legisla- ston, the Scouts escorted the body to tion> an ,| legislation every year. p Oak C ity Cemetery, where in the j “F, )r both of the above reasons, presence of a large number of friends wh i c h I have attempted to state to the last sad rites were performed. ! you with brevity, I strongly recom- The deceased is survived by his menl j the submission of an amendment mother, one brother and his grand- proposing biennial sessions of the father, Dr. V. Berry. j General Assembly hereafter.” * "rx J e mu j I The Governor’s message follows Card OI 1 hanks 'several conferences belli with Repre- To he so sweetly remembered by sentative Mundy in which Mr. Mundy friends when so deeply bereaved, is a submitted to the Governor reports lilld 'kindness and comfort 1 deepuly ap- statistics gathered by him from prac- prcciate. I want to thank not only tically every State in tho Union, both my friends, but the many friends of 'those having biennial and those hav- Logan Alexander, who were so kind j n g annual sessions, and thoughtful. | Smecr v y BERRY. i Masters Degree TO CHANGECONCERT AFTER SEPT. 1ST WILL PLAY EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON INSTEAD OF THURSDAY. We are glad to know that Ross Rich is willing to assume the leader ship of the band and not let it pass out of existence, for to reorganize would be very difficult. If Bain bridge wants a band, and will give material help that can be depended upon, these boys with Mr. Ludlam’s help, are willing to go on with the w)ork. To show their willingness) they are going to give Thursday eve ning concerts till the 1st of August, and will then give the Sunday after noon concert, that means so much to Bainbridge. Money cannot be sub scribed to anything that will boost the city just as a band does. A Muni cipal Band dignifies a town; it makes a town cultural and it makes a town happy. Rise to the occasion; boost these boys who have given their time to *7,845,534.00 With the five aditional districts lost to Seminole county the Decatur coun money to the support of one of the finest influences a city can possess. I Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hodges entcr- l tained a number of young people at 1 their beautiful home in Gyrene Tues- 1 day evening, the nature of the enter tainment being a watermelon cutting.! blue and white marks about their necks where they had been choked White Boys Choked. Yesterday morning deputies were tion and had “fortified” themselves Tonight (Thursday, July 21st) there. Orion lodge will confer thc % JWastors A posse of twenty-five was formed 'degree u P <>fl a class of seven. All as the citizens, some of whom are Master Masons cordially invited to be said to have been prominent mer- P re sont, promptly at 7:30 o'clock. chants and b'rtinesa men of Rayvfllo, approached the faun, a volley of rifle Mrs. W. J. Bush and son, Hoke shots greeted them and a furious ex- Smith Bush, of Colquitt, Ga., and change followed. The negroes were Mrs. A. J. Rich, with W. G. Rich, are supplied with a large quantity of am- d , thc week at Panama cit munition. ' • A bullet pierced the thigh of Mr. f,shlnB an,i bath,n *; Tba V will return Ferguson, the only white man Home via Apalachicola and Steamer wounded. Callahan the latter part of next week. Georgian Bull Whip Used Again The most disgusting and laughable frighten a set of Georgia citizens in- thing that has occured in many years to doing their bidding under the was the application of Randolph lash. God pity the authors of such Hcarst’s Bull Whip on the House com- a movement as bull whipping a com mittee of Constitutional Amend- 'mittee. ments last Monday. Of all the weak : —— and silly things that ever was pulled off, this is about the weakest we have ever seen. DOES the Atlanta Geor gian or William Randolph Hearst suppose for one moment that a com mittee of free Georgia citizens care a tinker’s damn about their approval ? Every lash will make them more de termined to protect Georgia from the bankruptcy that Hearst would throw the State. Does not the Georgian know that there is not a single indi- sent by the Richmond parish sheriff to j vidual in this State that bclieveB for arrest the women. Some hours later [ONE MOMENT that the Georgian they returned and reported they had j cares about the future welfare of been met by threats of death if they j Georgia ? Docs not the Georgian _ prosecuted their quest. They added j know that they are outsiders and that ty’s tax values last year were $10,- Quite a number of the guests wer«'j,hat the women, abetted by a number j their policy is against the welfare and 818,157.00. The City of Bainbridge from Bainbridge, with others from! of negro men, had gone to the George the best traditions of Georgia? Do pays a good amount of this. j Brinson and Cyrene. | Collins farm on the Gaines plants-j they, poor simpletons, think they can Notice The owners of real estate in the City of Bainbridge are hereby noti fied that a meeting of the Council will be held in the council chamber at 8 o’clock ptm., Monday, August 1st, 1921, for the purpose of hearing any complaints that said owners may have to make against such assessments as have been made for taxes for the year 1921, and to act upon such complaints. M. E. NUSSBAUM, Mayor, J. A. REID, Clerk. A man is not necessarily a fool be cause he acts like one. Some women could make a wooden Indian smile.

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The Post-search light. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1915-current, July 21, 1921, Image 1